Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/01/20
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]<snip> Many aftermarket LTM lenses blew the Leitz contemporary lenses into the weeds. Certainly, the Zeiss lens line did so across the board, from the 4/2.5cm Topogon to the 4/13.5cm Sonnar, and their clones, the Russian LTM line continue this tradition. (A 1.5/50 Jupiter-3 performs close to the level of the current 1.4/50 Summilux and certainly is almost grotesquely superior to the 1.5/50 Summarit, for instance.) Angenieux, Meyer, Kodak, Schneider, SOM Berthiot, several Italian houses, Steinheil, Ross, and Wollensak all made LTM lenses which challenged or exceeded the performance of Leitz lenses; Canon and Nikon (LET'S NOT GO THERE, he remarks grimly!), as well as several other Japanese houses did the same. <snip> Marc, You're gonna make the LUGs cry saying things like this. Like insulting motherhood and Sauerbrauten. Thank goodness!